Tuesday, April 15, 2008

In this interview, conducted at Paisley Five Mile Point Caves on June13, 2007, by Rick Pettigrew of ALI, Dr. Dennis Jenkins describes theremarkable discovery of human DNA in coprolites dated between 14,000and 15,000 calibrated years ago. This evidence, reported in the 3April 2008, issue of the journal Science, strongly supports theproposition that human migrants to North America arrived at least1000 years before the widespread Clovis complex appeared. The dataalso support the conclusion that the first human populationoriginated in northeast Asia. Dr. Jenkins, standing in the very spotwhere his field school team recovered the evidence, relates why andhow the excavation was carried out, explains the significance of thefind and shares his personal reflections on making a momentousdiscovery. Images woven into the interview show the environmentsurrounding the caves and the student archaeologists comprising thefield crew.

It's about this story. I haven't watched it yet, will do so when I get home tonight.

Been going nuts getting taxes in and dealing with hiring a contractor.